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                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0137T.pdf">Chemical and Biological Defense: Observations on DOD's Risk Assessment of Defense Capabilities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0148T.pdf">Travel Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave Navy Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0154T.pdf">Purchase Cards: Navy Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse but Is Taking Action to Resolve Control Weaknesses</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0167T.pdf">Financial Management: Strategies to Address Improper Payments at HUD, Education, and Other Federal Agencies</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0171T.pdf">Commercial Aviation: Financial Condition and Industry Responses Affect Competition</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0186T.pdf">Homeland Security: OMB's Temporary Cessation of Information Technology Funding for New Investments</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0195T.pdf">Catastrophe Insurance Risks: The Role of Risk-Linked Securities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0197T.pdf">Teacher Training Programs: Activities Underway to Improve Teacher Training, but Information Collected To Assess Accountability Has Limitations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0202T.pdf">Debt Collection: Agriculture Making Progress in Addressing Key Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0235T.pdf">Customs Service: Acquisition and Deployment of Radiation Detection Equipment</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0297T.pdf">Container Security: Current Efforts to Detect Nuclear Materials, New Initiatives, and Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0303T.pdf">Computer Security: Progress Made, But Critical Federal Operations and Assets Remain at Risk</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0376T.pdf">Social Security: Analysis of Issues and Selected Reform Proposals</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0452T.pdf">Veterans Benefits Administration: Better Staff Attrition Data and Analysis Needed</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0467T.pdf">Homeland Security: Challenges Facing the Coast Guard as it Transitions to the New Department</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0468T.pdf">Potential Terrorist Attacks: More Actions Needed to Better Prepare Critical Financial Markets</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0473T.pdf">National Airspace System: Reauthorizing FAA Provides Opportunities and Options to Address Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0493T.pdf">Human Capital: DOD's Civilian Personnel Strategic Management and the Proposed National Security Personnel System</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0495T.pdf">Electronic Government: Success of the Office of Management and Budget's 25 Initiatives Depends on Effective Management and Oversight</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0497T.pdf">Airport Finance: Past Funding Levels May Not Be Sufficient to Cover Airports' Planned Capital Development</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0498T.pdf">Social Security: Congress Should Consider Revising the Government Pension Offset 'Loophole'</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0518T.pdf">South Florida Ecosystem Restoration: Improved Science Coordination Needed to Increase the Likelihood of Success</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0519T.pdf">Combating Terrorism: Observations on National Strategies Related to Terrorism</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0526T.pdf">Weapons of Mass Destruction: Observations on U.S. Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Programs in Russia</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0528T.pdf">Nuclear Regulation: Emergency Preparedness Issues at the Indian Point 2 Nuclear Power Plant</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0529T.pdf">Environmental Protection: Recommendations for Improving the Underground Storage Tank Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0531T.pdf">Department of Education: Status of Efforts to Address Major Management Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0537T.pdf">File-Sharing Programs: Child Pornography Is Readily Accessible over Peer-to-Peer Networks</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0540T.pdf">Commercial Aviation: Issues Regarding Federal Assistance for Enhancing Air Service to Small Communities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0544T.pdf">Coast Guard: Comprehensive Blueprint Needed to Balance and Monitor Resource Use and Measure Performance for All Missions</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0545T.pdf">Federal Energy Management: Facility and Vehicle Energy Efficiency Issues</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0546T.pdf">Border Security: Challenges in Implementing Border Technology</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0548T.pdf">Military Personnel: A Strategic Approach Is Needed to Improve Joint Officer Development</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0549T.pdf">Military Personnel: Preliminary Observations Related to Income, Benefits, and Employer Support for Reservists During Mobilizations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0551T.pdf">Mutual Funds: Information on Trends in Fees and Their Related Disclosure</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0553T.pdf">DOD Business Systems Modernization: Longstanding Management and Oversight Weaknesses Continue to Put Investments at Risk</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0556T.pdf">Management Reform: Continuing Progress in Implementing Initiatives in the President's Management Agenda</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0557T.pdf">Overseas Presence: Conditions of Overseas Diplomatic Facilities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0559T.pdf">Small Business Contracting: Concerns About the Administration's Plan to Address Contract Bundling Issues</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0564T.pdf">Information Security: Progress Made, But Challenges Remain to Protect Federal Systems and the Nation's Critical Infrastructures</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0567T.pdf">Unemployment Insurance: States' Use of the 2002 Reed Act Distribution</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0570T.pdf">Department of Energy: Status of Contract and Project Management Reforms</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0572T.pdf">Fiscal Year 2002 U.S. Government Financial Statements: Sustained Leadership and Oversight Needed for Effective Implementation of Financial Management Reform</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0573T.pdf">Military Personnel: Preliminary Observations Related to Income, Benefits, and Employer Support for Reservist During Mobilizations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0574T.pdf">Sourcing and Acquisition: Challenges Facing the Department of Defense</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0575T.pdf">Military and Veterans' Benefits: Observations on the Concurrent Receipt of Military Retirement and VA Disability Compensation</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0577T.pdf">Medicare: Financial Challenges and Considerations for Reform</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0580T.pdf">Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Request: U.S. General Accounting Office</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0582T.pdf">Overseas Presence: Systematic Processes Needed to Rightsize Posts and Guide Embassy Construction</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0591T.pdf">Data Mining: Results and Challenges for Government Program Audits and Investigations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0592T.pdf">Defense Health Care: Oversight of the Adequacy of TRICARE's Civilian Provider Network Has Weaknesses</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0594T.pdf">Coast Guard: Challenges during the Transition to the Department of Homeland Security</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0595T.pdf">Performance Budgeting: Current Developments and Future Prospects</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0603T.pdf">Tactical Aircraft: Status of the F/A-22 Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0606T.pdf">Flood Insurance: Challenges Facing the National Flood Insurance Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0608T.pdf">Vehicle Donations: Taxpayer Considerations When Donating Vehicles to Charities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0609T.pdf">General Services Administration: Factors Affecting the Construction and Operating Costs of Federal Buildings</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0610T.pdf">Paid Tax Preparers: Most Taxpayers Believe They Benefit, but Some Are Poorly Served</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0611T.pdf">District of Columbia: Issues Associated with the Child and Family Services Agency's Performance and Policies</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0612T.pdf">Results-Oriented Cultures: Modern Performance Management Systems Are Needed to Effectively Support Pay for Performance</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0616T.pdf">Transportation Security: Post-September 11th Initiatives and Long-Term Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0619T.pdf">Paperwork Reduction Act: Record Increase in Agencies' Burden Estimates</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0621T.pdf">Military Training: DOD Approach to Managing Encroachment on Training Ranges Still Evolving</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0622T.pdf">Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Request: U.S. General Accounting Office</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0624T.pdf">Executive Reorganization Authority: Balancing Executive and Congressional Roles in Shaping the Federal Government's Structure</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0626T.pdf">Foster Care: States Focusing on Finding Permanent Homes for Children, but Long-Standing Barriers Remain</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0628T.pdf">Environmental Protection Agency: Problems Persist in Effectively Managing Grants</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0637T.pdf">Human Capital: Building on the Current Momentum to Address High-Risk Issues</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0640T.pdf">Highway Research: DOT's Actions to Implement Best Practices for Setting Research Agendas and Evaluating Outcomes</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0641T.pdf">Internal Revenue Service: Assessment of Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Request and 2003 Filing Season Performance to Date</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0642T.pdf">Corporation for National and Community Service: Preliminary Observations on the National Service Trust and AmeriCorps</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0645T.pdf">Best Practices: Better Acquisition Outcomes Are Possible If DOD Can Apply Lessons from F/A-22 Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0650T.pdf">Medicare: Observations on Program Sustainability and Strategies to Control Spending on Any Proposed Drug Benefit</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0653T.pdf">Federal Aviation Administration: Reauthorization Provides Opportunities to Address Key Agency Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0654T.pdf">Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Bioterrorism Preparedness Efforts Have Improved Public Health Response Capacity, but Gaps Remain</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0660T.pdf">Homeland Security: Challenges to Implementing the Immigration Interior Enforcement Strategy</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0676T.pdf">Small Business Administration: Loan Accounting and Other Financial Management Issues Impair Accountability</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0677T.pdf">Homeland Defense: Preliminary Observations on How Overseas and Domestic Missions Impact DOD Forces</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0698T.pdf">Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Many Federal Programs Fund Transportation Services, but Obstacles to Coordination Persist</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0700T.pdf">Free Trade Area of the Americas: United States Faces Challenges as Co-Chair of Final Negotiating Phase and Host of November 2003 Ministerial</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0704T.pdf">Contract Management: Reporting of Small Business Contract Awards Does Not Reflect Current Business Size</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0710T.pdf">Social Security: Issues Relating to Noncoverage of Public Employees</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0712T.pdf">Intercity Passenger Rail: Issues for Consideration in Developing an Intercity Passenger Rail Policy</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0714T.pdf">Internet Cigarette Sales: Limited Compliance and Enforcement of the Jenkins Act Result in Loss of State Tax Revenue</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0715T.pdf">Homeland Security: Information Sharing Responsibilities, Challenges, and Key Management Issues</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0716T.pdf">Contract Management: Comments on Proposed Services Acquisition Reform Act</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0717T.pdf">Defense Transformation: Preliminary Observations on DOD's Proposed Civilian Personnel Reforms</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0718T.pdf">Federal Assistance: Grant System Continues to Be Highly Fragmented</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0720T.pdf">Small Business Administration: Progress Made but Improvements Needed in Lender Oversight</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0721T.pdf">Small Business Administration: Observations on the Disaster Loan Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0728T.pdf">Maritime Administration: Weaknesses Identified in Management of the Title XI Loan Guarantee Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0729T.pdf">Federal Transit Administration: Bus Rapid Transit Offers Communities a Flexible Mass Transit Option</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0730T.pdf">Highway Safety: Factors Contributing to Traffic Crashes and NHTSA's Efforts to Address Them</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0732T.pdf">Compliance and Collection: Challenges for IRS in Reversing Trends and Implementing New Initiatives</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0735T.pdf">Reducing Congestion: Congestion Pricing Has Promise for Improving Use of Transportation Infrastructure</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0738T.pdf">Insurance Regulation: Preliminary Views on States' Oversight of Insurers' Market Behavior</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0740T.pdf">VA Health Care: VA Increases Third-Party Collections as It Addresses Problems in Its Collections Operations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0741T.pdf">Defense Transformation: DOD's Proposed Civilian Personnel System and Governmentwide Human Capital Reform</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0742T.pdf">Telecommunications: Data Gathering Weaknesses In FCC's Survey Of Information on Factors Underlying Cable Rate Changes</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0750T.pdf">Financial Management: Challenges Remain in Addressing the Government's Improper Payments</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0755T.pdf">Global Health: Assessment of First Year Efforts of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0756T.pdf">Department of Veterans Affairs: Key Management Challenges in Health and Disability Programs</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0758T.pdf">D.C. Child and Family Services: Key Issues Affecting the Management of Its Foster Care Cases</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0759T.pdf">FBI Reorganization: Progress Made in Efforts to Transform, but Major Challenges Continue</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0764T.pdf">Federal-Aid Highways: Cost and Oversight of Major Highway and Bridge Projects--Issues and Options</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0769T.pdf">SARS Outbreak: Improvements to Public Health Capacity Are Needed for Responding to Bioterrorism and Emerging Infectious Diseases</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0787T.pdf">U.S. Postal Service: Issues Associated with Anthrax Testing at the Wallingford Facility</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0789T.pdf">Federal Bankruptcy Judges: Weighted Case Filings as a Measure of Judges' Case-Related Workload</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0796T.pdf">IRS Modernization: Continued Progress Necessary for Improving Service to Taxpayers and Ensuring Compliance</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0807T.pdf">Elderly Housing: Project Funding and Other Factors Delay Assistance to Needy Households</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0812T.pdf">U.S. Postal Service: Key Postal Transformation Issues</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0815T.pdf">VA Long-Term Care: Veterans' Access to Noninstitutional Care Is Limited by Service Gaps and Facility Restrictions</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0819T.pdf">Unemployment Insurance: Survey of State Administrators and Contacts with Companies Promoting Tax Avoidance Practices</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0820T.pdf">Drug Control: Financial and Management Challenges Continue to Complicate Efforts to Reduce Illicit Drug Activities in Colombia</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0826T.pdf">Nuclear Waste: Preliminary Observations on the Quality Assurance Program at the Yucca Mountain Repository</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0833T.pdf">Gulf War Illnesses: Preliminary Assessment of DOD Plume Modeling for U.S. Troops' Exposure to Chemical Agents</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0839T.pdf">Federal Real Property: Executive and Legislative Actions Needed to Address Long-standing and Complex Problems</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0840T.pdf">Education and Care: Head Start Key Among Array of Early Childhood Programs, but National Research on Effectiveness Not Completed</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0844T.pdf">Bonneville Power Administration: Obligations to Fish and Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0849T.pdf">NASA: Major Management Challenges and Program Risks</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0851T.pdf">Human Capital: Building on DOD's Reform Effort to Foster Governmentwide Improvements</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0852T.pdf">Information Security: Continued Efforts Needed to Fully Implement Statutory Requirements</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0865T.pdf">Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: Several Factors Influence the Placement of Children Solely to Obtain Mental Health Services</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0871T.pdf">Department of Agriculture: Status of Efforts to Address Major Financial Management Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0872T.pdf">Department of Education: Status of Efforts to Address Major Management Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0873T.pdf">Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: Single-Employer Pension Insurance Program Faces Significant Long-Term Risks</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0874T.pdf">Geographic Information Systems: Challenges to Effective Data Sharing</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0881T.pdf">Water Quality: EPA Should Improve Guidance and Support to Help States Develop Standards That Better Target Cleanup Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0884T.pdf">Workforce Investment Act: Exemplary One-Stops Devised Strategies to Strengthen Services, but Challenges Remain for Reauthorization</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0890T.pdf">Compact of Free Association: An Assessment of the Amended Compacts and Related Agreements</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0902T.pdf">Homeland Security: Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security in Balancing its Border Security and Trade Facilitation Missions</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0908T.pdf">Border Security: New Policies and Procedures Are Needed to Fill Gaps in the Visa Revocation Process</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0909T.pdf">Mutual Funds: Additional Disclosures Could Increase Transparency of Fees and Other Practices</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0911T.pdf">Rural Housing Service: Opportunities to Improve Management</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0916T.pdf">Invasive Species: Federal Efforts and State Perspectives on Challenges and National Leadership</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0917T.pdf">VA Research: Actions Insufficient to Further Strengthen Human Subject Protections</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0922T.pdf">Federal Budget: Opportunities for Oversight and Improved Use of Taxpayer Funds</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0923T.pdf">Military Aircraft: Observations on the Proposed Lease of Aerial Refueling Aircraft by the Air Force</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0930T.pdf">Nuclear Waste: Challenges and Savings Opportunities in DOE's High-Level Waste Cleanup Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0931T.pdf">Department of Defense: Status of Financial Management Weaknesses and Progress Toward Reform</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0932T.pdf">Contract Reform: DOE's Policies and Practices in Competing Research Laboratory Contracts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0936T.pdf">Electronic Records: Management and Preservation Pose Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0937T.pdf">Federal Judgeships: General Accuracy of District and Appellate Judgeship Case-Related Workload Measures</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0938T.pdf">Military Aircraft: Information on Air Force Aerial Refueling Tankers</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0941T.pdf">Social Security Numbers: Ensuring the Integrity of the SSN</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0943T.pdf">Competitive Sourcing: Implementation Will Be Key to Success of New Circular A-76</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0949T.pdf">Endangered Species: Despite Consultation Improvement Efforts in the Pacific Northwest, Concerns Persist about the Process</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0969T.pdf">Securities and Exchange Commission: Preliminary Observations on SEC's Spending and Strategic Planning</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0980T.pdf">Foreign Assistance: Observations on Post-Conflict Assistance in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0984T.pdf">Electronic Disability Claims Processing: Social Security Administration's Accelerated Strategy Faces Significant Risks</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0987T.pdf">Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Project Risks Could Affect Weather Data Needed by Civilian and Military Users</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0988T.pdf">Compact of Free Association: An Assessment of the Amended Compacts and Related Agreements</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0991T.pdf">Financial Management: Effective Implementation of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 Is Key to Reducing the Government's Improper Payments</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0992T.pdf">National Park Service: Status of Agency Efforts to Address Its Maintenance Backlog</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0997T.pdf">Defense Health Care: Army Has Not Consistently Assessed the Health Status of Early-Deploying Reservists</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0998T.pdf">Group Purchasing Organizations: Use of Contracting Processes and Strategies to Award Contracts for Medical-Surgical Products</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-0999T.pdf">Great Lakes: A Coordinated Strategic Plan and Monitoring System Are Needed to Achieve Restoration Goals</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1007T.pdf">Compact of Free Association: An Assessment of the Amended Compacts and Related Agreements</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1009T.pdf">Foreign Affairs: Effective Stewardship of Resources Essential to Efficient Operations at State Department, USAID</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1012T.pdf">Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Managing Competing Pressures Is Critical to Achieving Program Goals</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1013T.pdf">Border Security: New Policies and Increased Interagency Coordination Needed to Improve Visa Process</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1014T.pdf">Capitol Visitor Center: Current Status of Schedule and Estimated Cost</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1016T.pdf">Nursing Homes: Prevalence of Serious Quality Problems Remains Unacceptably High, Despite Some Decline</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1020T.pdf">GAO'S Proposed Human Capital Legislation: Views of the Employee Advisory Council</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1022T.pdf">Competitive Sourcing: Implementation Will Be Challenging for Federal Agencies</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1024T.pdf">GAO: Additional Human Capital Flexibilities Are Needed</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1027T.pdf">Social Security Disability: Reviews of Beneficiaries' Disability Status Require Continued Attention to Improve Service Delivery</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1029T.pdf">Federal Budget: Opportunities for Oversight and Improved Use of Taxpayer Funds</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1030T.pdf">Federal Budget: Opportunities for Oversight and Improved Use of Taxpayer Funds</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1034T.pdf">Federal Law Enforcement: Selected Issues in Human Capital Management</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1035T.pdf">Social Security: Proposed Totalization Agreement with Mexico Presents Unique Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1036T.pdf">Consumer Credit: Limited Information Exists on Extent of Credit Report Errors and Their Implications for Consumers</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1037T.pdf">Information Security: Further Efforts Needed to Fully Implement Statutory Requirements in DOD</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1038T.pdf">Social Security Reform: Analysis of a Trust Fund Exhaustion Scenario Illustrates the Difficult Choices and the Need for Early Action</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1040T.pdf">Transportation Programs: Opportunities for Oversight and Improved Use of Taxpayer Funds</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1042T.pdf">Dietary Supplements Containing Ephedra: Health Risks and FDA's Oversight</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1048T.pdf">Military Aircraft: Considerations in Reviewing the Air Force Proposal to Lease Aerial Refueling Aircraft</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1058T.pdf">Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Established Infectious Disease Control Measures Helped Contain Spread, But a Large-Scale Resurgence May Pose Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1108T.pdf">Electronic Government: Challenges to the Adoption of Smart Card Technology</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1110T.pdf">Facilities Location: Progress and Barriers in Selecting Rural Areas and Using Telework</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1114T.pdf">Geospatial Information: Technologies Hold Promise for Wildland Fire Management, but Challenges Remain</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1115T.pdf">File-Sharing Programs: Users of Peer-to-Peer Networks Can Readily Access Child Pornography</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1134T.pdf">Department of Homeland Security: Challenges and Steps in Establishing Sound Financial Management</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1137T.pdf">Information Security: Challenges in Using Biometrics</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1138T.pdf">Information Security: Effective Patch Management is Critical to Mitigating Software Vulnerabilities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1141T.pdf">Kennedy Center: Improvements Needed to Strengthen the Construction Process</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1143T.pdf">Military Aircraft: Observations on the Air Force's Plan to Lease Aerial Refueling Aircraft</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1146T.pdf">Homeland Security: Reforming Federal Grants to Better Meet Outstanding Needs</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1147T.pdf">Security: Counterfeit Identification and Indentification Fraud Raise Security Concerns</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1150T.pdf">Aviation Security: Progress Since September 11, 2001, and the Challenges Ahead</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1154T.pdf">Transportation Security: Federal Action Needed to Enhance Security Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1155T.pdf">Maritime Security: Progress Made in Implementing Maritime Transportation Security Act, but Concerns Remain</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1161T.pdf">Recreation Fees: Information on Forest Service Management of Revenue from the Fee Demonstration Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1162T.pdf">GAO'S Proposed Human Capital Legislation: Views of the Employee Advisory Council</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1165T.pdf">Homeland Security: Information Sharing Responsibilities, Challenges, and Key Management Issues</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1166T.pdf">Results-Oriented Government: Using GPRA to Address 21st Century Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1167T.pdf">GAO: Transformation Challenges, and Opportunities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1168T.pdf">Results-Oriented Government: Shaping the Government to Meet 21st Century Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1169T.pdf">Electronic Government: Progress and Challenges in Implementing the Office of Personnel Management's Initiatives</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1170T.pdf">Financial Management: Sustained Effort Needed to Resolve Long-Standing Problems at U.S. Agency for International Development</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1171T.pdf">Foreign Assistance: USAID Needs to Improve Its Workforce Planning and Operating Expense Accounting</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1172T.pdf">VA Benefits: Fundamental Changes to VA's Disability Criteria Need Careful Consideration</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1174T.pdf">Disaster Assistance: Federal Aid to the New York City Area Following the Attacks of September 11th and Challenges Confronting FEMA</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1176T.pdf">Infectious Diseases: Gaps Remain in Surveillance Capabilities of State and Local Agencies</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2003-1177T.pdf">National Park Service: Efforts Underway to Address Its Maintenance Backlog</a></li>
                       
                   
               
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